Cool Hand Linkspam (1st June 2012)
- Where the Tech is She? : “Portland’s software industry is booming. So where are all the women?”
- Feminism F.A.Q.s: Did Feminists Burn Bras? : From Gender Focus, A Canadian Feminist Blog
- CFP: Doctor Who: Fan Phenomena (Intellect) : Call for academic works on Doctor Who.
- Google Australia Gender Diversity Grants – PyCon Australia 2012 | 18-19 August | Hobart, Tasmania : “Applications for the gender diversity delegates grants are open now, and will close on Friday 22 June”
- let’s pretend social interactions happen without social context : Another discussion of harassment turned into a conversation on how to help social awkward men learn how to flirt. This is a rebuttal.
- Hitman Absolution And The Army Of Girls That Will Change Gaming : A short piece from Kotaku Australia juxtaposing the author’s experience with a TV show for young gamers with a large female audience and a disappointingly sexist trailer.
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Regis:
June 3rd, 2012 at 1:51 am
So, Gearbox is making an “Aliens: Colonial Marines” game, to be published by Sega. Awesome!
And one of the bonuses available if you preorder the game from Game Stop is that you can play Marine characters from the movie. Also Awesome!
The four Marines available: Hicks, Hudson, Apone, and Drake. That’s … wait. Hold up… No Vasquez?? Not even remotely awesome.
http://www.gamestop.com/xbox-360/games/aliens-colonial-marines/69386
ConFigures:
June 5th, 2012 at 10:50 am
Oh, how wrong! She was my favorite Marine.
Lee Brimmicombe-Wood:
June 6th, 2012 at 1:59 pm
That’s not good at all. She was the coolest of the characters.
Makes me wonder whether they have any women Marines at all in the game. That would be profoundly disappointing if they don’t.
Lee Brimmicombe-Wood:
June 9th, 2012 at 4:04 am
After looking at the PvP demo at E3 it looks as if there are no women player characters. My guess is that they did not assign any memory budget for a rig and animations for women characters. Though I could be wrong.